NOVEMBER
18th
“HANNAH ARENDT AND THE POLITICAL”
FINAL PROGRAM
NOVEMBER 17th
8.30-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.45 Welcome Address
António Marques (FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Plenary Session
9.45 -10.45 - Auditorium 2 (2nd Floor - Tower B)
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Disch (Minnesota University, USA)
How can Hannah Arendt worship the American Revolution but disdain political representation?
Chair: António Marques (IFL- FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Parallel Sessions:
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Totalitarianism, Sovereignty and Resistence Auditorium 2 (3rd Floor) |
Judgment and Community Room T15 (3rd Floor) |
| 11.00 | Superflous People, Kushanava Choudhury (Yale University, USA) |
Hannah Arendt and Judgment: the Faculty and the Duty to Judge,
Annelies Degryse (Catholic University Leuven, Belgique) |
| 11.30 | Désobéissance Civile, Conscience Individuelle et Politique, Regina
Queiroz (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) |
Hannah Arendt, bios politikos and political reason, Lídia Figueiredo (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal) |
| 12.00 | Arendt and the Political: Freedom after Sovereignty, Catherine Kellogg (University of Alberta, Canada) |
Hannah Arendt and the concept of the Political: the Problem of Political Community and Individual
Responsibility, Sarah Sorial (Macquarie University, Australia) |
| 12.30 -13.00 | Debate Chair: Catherine Kellogg (University of Alberta) |
Debate |
13.15-14.45 Lunch
15.00-17.00 Parallel Sessions:
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Representation, Revolution, Foundation Auditorium 2 (3rd Floor) |
Violence Room T15 (3rd Floor) |
| 15.00 | Hannah Arendt's radical politics: beyond really existing democracies, André Duarte (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil) | Violence et fondation, Hannah Arendt face ŕ l'énigme machiavélienne,
Thomas Berns (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) |
| 15.30 | Political Shipwreck: Authority and the End of Revolution, Margarida Amaral (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) | Levinas and Arendt on Violence and Conscience: The Disharmony of Everyday Life,
David Kaye (The New School for Social Research, USA) |
| 16.00 | Debate Chair: Joăo Tiago Proença (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) |
Debate Chair: Luiz Baptista (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) |
NOVEMBER
18th
10.00-12.00 Parallel Sessions:
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Happiness and Friendship Auditorium 3 (5th Floor) |
Agonism and Pluralism Room T16 (3rd Floor) |
| 10.00 | Arendt’s View of the Political: How Crucial is it to Human Happiness?, Lee Cooper (Colorado State University, USA) | Identity and the Political: the Importance of Hannah Arendt for retrieving a
constitucional Locus for Agonistic Action, Rachel Lawlor (University of Stirling, Scotland) |
| 10.30 | The Whereabouts of Friendship. On Civic Friendship, Boundary-Crossing and Being
at Home in the World in Hannah Arendt, Marieke Borren (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
Between Arendt and Lyotard: Unravelling the Différend, Kathleen Vandeputte & Bart Vandenabeele (Universiteit Gent, Belgique) |
| 11.00 | Political Responsibility and Public Happiness: Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the
Political, Terukazu Morikawa (Meijo University, Japan) |
Debate Chair: Joăo Tiago Proença (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) |
| 11.30 -12.00 | Debate Chair: Terukazu Morikawa (Meijo University) |
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12.00 -13.45 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Parallel Sessions:
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Language and the Political |
History Room T16 (3rd Floor) |
| 14.00 | Speaking and the Spoken – An Investigation of the Politics of Speech in Hannah
Arendt’s Human Condition, Meghan A. Robison (New School University, USA) |
Arendt and Thucydides on Freedom, Anne Hewitt (City University of New York, USA)
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| 14.30 | Bakhtin and Arendt in Dialogue – Authority and Freedom in ‘Making’ the Political and the Language, Floarea Vîrban (European University Institute, Italia) |
Politics as Substance of History – On Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Ideology,
Marcin Moskalewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) |
| 15.00 | Public and Private: the Sense of the Political in Wittgenstein and Arendt,
Luke Plotica (The John Hopkins University, USA) |
Hannah Arendt: Le Temps de la Révolution, Antonio Mazzů (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) |
| 15.30 -16.00 | Debate Chair: Luke Plotica (The John Hopkins University) |
Debate |
16.00 -16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Parallel Sessions:
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Foreignness and Lie |
The Political Compared Room T16 (3rd Floor) |
| 16.30 | Truth and Lies in an Arendtian Sense: Confronting Derrida’s Discussion of “Truth and Politics”, Cara O’Connor (Stony Brook University, USA) |
'Anything is possible and everything is permitted' Psychoanalytic
Reflections on Hannah Arendt’s Elements of Totalitarianism, David Bell (British
Psychoanalytic Society, England) |
| 17.00 | The Place of Thinking: Arendt on Moral Foreignness, Christine Lopes (University of Southampton, England) | The Boundaries of The Political: Arendt and Rancičre,
Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawaii, USA) |
| 17.30 -18.00 | Debate Chair: Christine Lopes (University of Southampton) |
Debate |